From collection Candidates
In 1911 Kate Biggers failed to win election as the Republican party candidate for Oklahoma Commissioner of Charities and Corrections. She garnered 91,707 votes but Democrat Kate Barnard won with 120,703. Socialist candidate Winnie E. Branstetter came in third with 23,872 votes. Biggers served as president of the Woman Suffrage Association of Oklahoma and Indian Territory. She was active in lobbying for full woman suffrage, working with particular intensity at the state constitutional convention. Prior to 1918, however, Oklahoma activists succeeded only in winning the right to vote in school elections. Biggers was also a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
